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goa-daemon [--help] [--replace] [--version]

The goa-daemon program provides the org.gnome.OnlineAccounts name on the session message bus. Users or administrators should never need to start this daemon as it will be automatically started by dbus-daemon(1) whenever an application sends a D-Bus message to the org.gnome.OnlineAccounts name on the session bus.

The goa-daemon program stores configuration in the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/goa-1.0/accounts.conf (typically ~/.config/goa-1.0/accounts.conf) file. The format of this file is private and 3rd party programs or libraries should never read it. This file does not contain any passwords or secrets.

See the XDG Base Directory Specification^[1] for more information about $XDG_CONFIG_HOME.

The goa-daemon program stores secrets (such as OAuth tokens) in GNOME Keyring^[2]. The format of the stored secrets is private and 3rd party programs or libraries should never read, modify or delete these secrets.

--replace

Replace existing instance.

--version

Show program version.

--help

Show help options.

Written by David Zeuthen <zeuthen@gmail.com> with a lot of help from many others.

Please send bug reports to either the distribution bug tracker or the upstream bug tracker at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-online-accounts/issues. There are some debugging tips at https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeOnlineAccounts/Debugging

dbus-daemon(1)

1. XDG Base Directory Specification
   http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
2. GNOME Keyring
   https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeKeyring